Would you feel satisfied if an asterisk were added to the home run hitters names?

If they do that in baseball the record books would look a whole lot different. If they did it in football the record books would look like a constellation of stars or a galaxy. The Milky Way perhaps?

It wouldn't change my life one bit.

A few points:

- Let young people pick their own heroes. They don't need a nudge in a certain direction from a record book.

- With all the endless droning about steroid use people know who is a user or suspected user. And if they don't, they can certainly find out easily enough (assuming they care). Putting an asterisk next to a name was a terrible idea in 1961 and remains a terrible idea.

- Griffey? Where did you get that information? If Griffey, why not Thome too?

- People need to stop being so sanctimonious about baseball players. Let he without sin cast the first stone and all that jazz.

Satisfied? I'm satisfied right now because I have a loving wife, a good job, plenty of good friends and family, and a refrigerator full of beer.

Asterisks in the baseball record books won't change my level of satisfaction one bit.

That said, I wouldn't be against adding asterisks to some of these guys' names. A-Rod, McGwire, Bonds, and Sosa deserve it, since there is overwhelming evidence (or even admissions) that these guys juiced (yeah, I know baseball hadn't officially banned steroids during part of their careers, but it was still shady). But Griffey? He has never been accused of steroid usage. He doesn't deserve an asterisk.

Why stop with home run hitters? How about the other hitting records? And pitching records, and fielding records. How do you know for sure who's clean and who isn't? Is Nolan Ryan clean? Remember, he and Canseco were with the Rangers at the same time. Yeah, I'd be shocked to learn that Ryan juiced, but I'm certain that there are plenty of guys from that era who used steroids and weren't caught. Is it fair we just drop an asterisk on the guys who got caught?

How about a double asterisk for using amphetamines?

**Aaron

**Mays

And a triple asterisk for drinking alcohol during Prohibition? An illegal drug is an illegal drug.

***Ruth

While we're at it, sportswriters should be banned from using spellcheckers and editors, as such artificial means unfairly enhance their efforts.

Also, posters should either cite and credit Baseball Reference.com when they cut 'n paste, or at least make the effort to delete extraneous information (like "HR Log"). Neatness counts.

Et cetera....

As long as you put A-Rod farther down on the list, with 448 home runs and no asterisk, then it's ok. And you see if you can figure out how many CLEAN home runs the other guys hit, if any, and do the same.

No. It isn't just. You are BOUND to asterisk an innocent player, too. Let it go.

No. I just don't care who took steroids and more.